state
nounEtymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin stātus (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stāre (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar. The verb is first attested around the beginning of the 16th century. Related to English stand.
Definitions
A condition
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- a state of being
- a state of emergency
- Relate what Latium was, her ancient Kings : / Declare the paſt, and preſent State of things, / When firſt the Trojan Fleet Auſonia ſought ; / And how the Rivals lov’d, and how they fought.
High social standing or circumstance.
- in state
- The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
A polity or community.
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
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An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences.
To declare to be a fact.
- He stated that he was willing to help.
To make known.
- State your intentions.
Stately.
- The ſhepheardes ſwayne you cannot well ken, / But it be by his pride, from other men: / They looken bigge as Bulles, that bene bate, / And bearen the cragge ſo ſtiffe and ſo ſtate, / As Cocke on his dunghill, crowing cranck.
A current governing polity, country, city-state, or community.
The current governing polity, country, city-state, or community under which the speaker…
The current governing polity, country, city-state, or community under which the speaker lives.
State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.
- State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.
- The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed.
The neighborhood
- synonymcondition
- synonymposition
- synonymscenario
- synonymset up
- synonymshape
- synonymsituation
- synonymstate
- synonymstate of affairs
- synonymstatus
- synonymcommunicate
- neighborabsolute state
- neighborBayou State
- neighborBear State
- neighborBell state
- neighborBig Bend State
- neighborBlackwater State
- neighborBlue Hen State
- neighborblue state
- neighborbound state
- neighborbuffer state
- neighborcat state
- neighborcharacter state
Derived
all-state, annexed state, anthrostate, antistate, area state, aspirant state, battleground state, bedroom state, bellwether state, bistate, bitstate, border state, chain-melted state, change of state, chief of state, circular state, civilization-state, collaborationist state, construct state, costate, deep state, Dervish state, determinate state, downstate, echo state network, Efimov state, eigenstate, emphatic state, enemy of the state, ephemeral state, Esdaile state, ethnostate, ethno-state, fifty-first state, fifty-state strategy, finite-state automaton, finite state machine, finite-state machine, flag state, flow state · +235 more
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for state. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA